The deadline for Oscar nomination voting has been extended by two days due to the Southern California wildfires. Voting opened for the academy’s nearly 10,000 members on January 8, and was originally scheduled to close on January 12. The deadline is now January 14. The nominations announcement, which was scheduled to be announced on January … Read more
In Rusudan Glogidze’s winter sophomore film “Vintage,” the title could refer to any number of withered relics: the beautiful, richly antique pieces of furniture that Georgian émigré Medea (Salome Demoria) illegally imports from her home country to Russia to sell; The once large but disintegrating apartment in St. Petersburg that she bought at a discount … Read more
Oscar nominations aren’t a big deal to him, Samuel L. Jackson said in a video interview with AP Entertainment, while promoting his role in Netflix’s The Piano Lesson. Shockingly, Jackson has only received one Oscar nomination during his illustrious career – for Pulp Fiction, for which he won Best Supporting Actor in 1995. Jackson will … Read more
Los Angeles-based Outsider Pictures, a US distribution center for Spanish-language cinema, has acquired North American rights to three 97th International Academy Award nominations.y Academy Awards: “Memories of a Burning Body” from Costa Rica, “Saturn Returns” from Spain, and “Queens” from Switzerland (Renas) directed by Peruvian director Claudia Reineke. In addition, the film received the Directors’ … Read more
John Lithgow, Geoffrey Rush and Christine Froeseth won top acting awards at Spain’s famous Sitges Fantasy Film Festival, which concluded its 57th edition on October 13. The festival was swept with three awards, the Academy Award for Best Austrian International Film, for the film “The Devil’s Bath” by directors Veronica Franz and Severin Fiala. Derived … Read more
“The Last Journey” unfolds as a humorous and heartbreaking road movie, a tender portrait of the love director Philipp Hammar has for his ailing 80-year-old father, Lars. Hoping to rekindle the older man’s enthusiasm for life, Philip and his best friend and co-director Frederic Wickingson move him to the French seaside town where they used … Read more